Spot crypto is legal in Switzerland and the service side around it is licensed: FINMA publishes a standing list of the crypto services it supervises - custody, DLT payment systems, staking, stablecoins, crypto funds and ETPs, DLT securities trading - and treats each as a supervisory-law question. Accepting client crypto is a licensable activity: FINMA authorisation is required once the number of clients whose deposits or crypto-based assets you accept passes twenty, and operating a venue for DLT securities trading needs a DLT trading facility licence.
Holding, buying and selling crypto as a private individual is unrestricted, and the Federal Tax Administration confirms the point from the other side by taxing crypto holdings as ordinary movable assets. What leveraged crypto derivatives a Swiss retail client may be offered is a separate question.
The contract itself does not change by geography: a SKHX perpetual settles in USDC everywhere.
2 venues open SK hynix perps to traders in Switzerland.
HyperliquidFour steps from sign-up to an open position.
No capital gains tax for a private investor: the FTA treats buying and selling payment tokens like transactions in conventional currencies, so gains in private assets are in principle tax-free and losses non-deductible. Two things are taxed instead.
Trading SKHX from Switzerland: legal.
3 platforms serve Switzerland for SK hynix trading, among them Aevo, Hyperliquid and Variational.
Canborsa offers up to 20x leverage on SK hynix for traders based in Switzerland.
Canborsa charges 0.07% per side (0.14% round trip) on SK hynix.